THE ISLAND OF THE WONDERFUL APPLE TREE.
After leaving this, they suffered again from hunger, till they came to
an island with a high hill round it on every side. A single apple tree
grew in the middle, very tall and slender, and all its branches were in
like manner exceedingly slender, and of wonderful length, so that they
grew over the hill and down to the sea.
When the ship came near the island, Maildun caught one of the branches
in his hand. For three days and three nights the ship coasted the
island, and during all this time he held the branch, letting it slide
through his hand, till on the third day he found a cluster of seven
apples on the very end. Each of these apples supplied the travellers
with food and drink for forty days and forty nights.